Middle school dance

Karissa was so excited to be going to the first middle school dance of the year.  Jillian, her best friend, got to with her. Jillian did her hair and they got ready at her house and then I picked up a carload of kids to take to the dance!  It brought back memories of me and my best friend getting ready for the dances!  I was so glad Jillian got to go because they do go to different schools.  Of course unlike my 8th grade year when my dad forgot to pick me up from my dance, she did get a ride back home!  It was just me and the principle standing outside and I had to call home to see what was up and dad thought I was in my room, I guess mom forgot to let him know and then she feel asleep!  Memories!! 

Its so hard to believe how grown up she is getting and we are so proud of her and the little lady she is becoming.

Our DC trip

This is where the plane hit, (I was allowed to take a picture of this).

Let me just say that 9/11 has changed everything which I'm sure everyone knows. I had a hard time with how it changed the Pentagon. We couldn't even take a picture of it and this was a place where my dad worked for 10 years. My sister and I ran up and down the corridors by ourselves. Dad drove to work 2 hours each way for 7 years and if we had a doctors appointment we had to spend the day with him. If he had meetings to go to he would put us on a tour, I'm pretty sure that Chanda and I could give the tours by the time he retired!! I wanted the girls to go on a tour but found out that I was suppose to arrange it 9-21 days out from the date we were there.

We had a good time in DC. We walked from 9:30 in the morning until 9:30 that night. Karissa gets to go this year with her 8th grade class but she now says she doesn't want too. I guess we wore her out on the walking. It was good to go back since I hadn't been there in 11 years. Its still the same well with the exception of the reflecting pool being gone. I did find out that they are in the process of repairing a leak in it.

On the 2nd day there my sister, Jason and their kids and my mom came with us!

I am very proud of my dad and what all he accomplished. He was in the Air Force for 21 years.

First day of school

First day of 2nd grade!